Adventure, I well know, is in the heart, not in the view.

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation

Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.

They smell of all the baths they didnt take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.

To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

The test of true competence is the end result.

The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.

In modern time slowness is new sickness.

America is the most fertile ground of opportunity.

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats.

Books are my weakness.

I'm an appalling cook. I can just about create a glass of orange juice and a ham-and-cheese sandwich.

I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.

Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

Popularity comes and goes. You need to know who you are, what you stand for, and why you're here.

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.